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Descriptive Summary Daniel C. Roper Papers Roper, Daniel C. (Daniel Calhoun), 1867-1943. Linear feet of shelf space occupied: 56 Number of items: 33,900 Duke University. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185

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The papers of Daniel C. Roper (1860-1958) were donated to the Duke University Special Collections Library in 1977, 1978 and 1980 by members of the Roper family.

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Biographical Note 1867, April 1 Born Marlboro County, S.C. 1888 Received B.A. from Trinity College (became Duke University) 1889, Dec. 25 Married Lou McKenzie 1892-1894 Member of South Carolina House of Representatives 1894-1897 Clerk for U.S. Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce 1897-1900 Practiced law in Washington, D.C. 1900-1910 Expert special agent for U.S. Census Bureau 1901 Received LL.B. from National University (Washington, D.C.) 1911-1913 Statistician and Chief Clerk for Ways and Means Committee, U.S. House of Representatives 1913-1916 First Assistant Postmaster General of United States 1916 Chairman, Organization Bureau, Woodrow Wilson campaign 1917, Mar.-Sept. Vice-Chairman, U.S. Tariff Commission 1917-1920 Commissioner of Internal Revenue 1920-1921 President of Marlin Rockwell Corporation, New York City 1921 Returned to Washington, D.C. to practice law 1929-1943 Trustee of Duke University 1932 Worked on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidential campaign 1933-1938 U.S. Secretary of Commerce 1939, May-Aug. Minister to Canada 1943, April 11 Died

Roper received the following academic degrees: LL.D. from Tusculum College (1927), LL.D from National University (1933), M.B.A. from Bryant and Stratton College in Providence, R.I. (1933), and L.H.D. from Rollins College in Winter Park, Fl.(1934). He was a member of the American Bar Association; the Board of Stewards; the Democratic Party; the Board of Directors for the Atlantic Coast Line Railway; the Board of Education in Washington, D.C. (1932); the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1930); the 6th Ecumenical Conference (1931); Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Phi Beta Kappa; the Chevy Chase Club; the National Press Club; the University Club (Washington, D.C.); and the Masons. He was a trustee of Coker College and the American University. Roper was the author of The United States Post Office (1917) and Fifty Years in Public Life (1941).

Collection Overview

The Daniel C. Roper Papers, 1860-1958 (bulk 1933-1938), consist chiefly of professional and political correspondence, including telegrams and memoranda, but also include speeches, financial papers, clippings, invitations, legal papers, printed material, and pictures. The collection primarily documents Roper's term as Secretary of Commerce during the first administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In general the papers provide an inside look at this Democratic administration during the early depression years, as well as the relationships among business, government, and politics. In particular, Roper had close ties to people in the business community and was sympathetic to their concerns. In addition, the collection tracks the course of the New Deal in the Department of Commerce and the career of Roper not only as a United States government official in Roosevelt's cabinet but also as a progressive Democrat. However, there are some gaps in these professional files in that there is very little material pertaining to Roper's career prior to his appointment to the cabinet post. Also, files for 1931 are almost entirely missing, and cross-reference sheets in the collection prepared by Roper's staff appear to refer to a separate set of files missing from this collection. There is relatively little in the papers concerning Roper's personal life, except for financial papers.

Roper's tenure as Secretary of Commerce is primarily documented in the Alphabetical Series, which not only is the largest series but also forms the heart of the collection. His support of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential campaign probably helped him earn this cabinet appointment along with Roper's representation of the old Woodrow Wilson element in the Democratic Party. Roper set as a major task the development of mutual confidence, cooperation, and a closer relationship between business and government in order to bring about a recovery from the depression. Since he had been a tax expert and business consultant prior to becoming Secretary, this was a natural role for him. In fact in 1933 he had organized a Business Advisory and Planning Council for the Department of Commerce to advise the administration on the effect of the New Deal's proposals on business. After serving in the administration for almost six years, Roper resigned to return to private life.

The Alphabetical Series includes correspondence from a large number of prominent senators and congressmen, men in government service, businessmen, lawyers, judges, and New Deal figures. These include Bernard Baruch, James Byrnes, Patrick Callahan, James Cannon, Thomas Chadbourne, David Coker, Homer Cummings, Josephus Daniels, William Dodd, Ernest Draper, Robert Elbert, James Farley, John Garner, and W. Averell Harriman. Other correspondents are William Henry Harrison, Edward House, Louis Howe Cordell Hull, Clarence Hurrey, Jesse Jones, Hugh MacRae, William Gibbs McAdoo, George Milton, Robert Owen, Hollins Randolph, Lawrence Robert, L.S. Rowe, and John Humphrey Small. The Farley correspondence includes a run of first day covers, 1933-1938, while he was Postmaster General. Roper's interest in the stamps was piqued in part by the fact that he had been the First Assistant Postmaster General appointed by Woodrow Wilson. There are smaller amounts of correspondence with other New Deal figures, such as Harry Hopkins, Frances Perkins, and Harold Ickes.

Information on organizations and topics is scattered throughout the Alphabetical Series. They include aeronautics (in Aviation folder); American University; the Board of Education of the District of Columbia; commerce (in Foreign Trade folder); communication (radio and telegraph); financial federations, specifically The Community Chest of Washington, D.C.; the Democratic National Committee; the Democratic Party (in Politics folder); Duke University; the Export-Import Bank of Washington; and the Hindenburg accident. Others are the Freemasons (in Masons folder); Japanese Economic Mission to the United States; the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (also in Methodist Church and Mt. Vernon Place Church folders); the National Benefit Life Assurance Company; the National Recovery Administration; the Post Office Department; the presidential election of 1932 (in Politics folder); prohibition; religion and politics; Franklin D. Roosevelt; and temperance and liquor laws (in Liquor Control folder). Roper supported prohibition and in fact had served during the prohibition era as Commissioner of Internal Revenue in the Treasury Department, charged with enforcing liquor laws. There is information about agencies within or related to the Department of Commerce including the Business Advisory Council, the Bureau of the Census (in Census folder), the Bureau of Fisheries (in Fisheries folder), and the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (in Foreign and Domestic folder). Other topics represented in the collection include the Boxing Bill; the Communications Group; the Inter-departmental Communications Committee (in Communications Committee folder), probably a precursor of the Federal Communications Commission; and a proposed National Advisory Council.

Roper's professional views are expressed in the Writings and Speeches Series primarily while he served as Commissioner of Internal Revenue and as Secretary of Commerce. The speeches address a number of domestic political and economic issues, including the relationship of business and government, government regulation, taxation, economic recovery from the depression, the U.S. Postal Service, and the role of government in society.

There is scant evidence in these papers relating to Roper's career other than that as Secretary of Commerce and his speeches as Commissioner of Internal Revenue. His autobiography, Fifty Years of Public Life in the Writings and Speeches Series, gives an overview of his career. There is some information on his career as the First Assistant Postmaster General in the Alphabetical Series in the Postmaster General file. In that series there is a little information in Internal Revenue Service folders about his resignation as Commissioner. In the Clippings Series there is documentation of his brief service as U.S. Minister to Canada in the summer of 1939. There is a scrapbook, "My Clippings of Their Majesties' Visit to Canada, 1939," and loose clippings pertaining to the visit.

Roper's personal life is not well documented in the collection except for his financial concerns as seen in the Financial Papers Series. The information in that series relates not only to the investments and bank accounts of Roper but to his wife Lou McKenzie Roper and their children. There is some additional information on the Ropers in the various Roper folders and in other scattered folders under various topics in the Alphabetical Series, and in the Legal Papers and Pictures in the Miscellaneous Series.

A photograph album entitled, "Sugar: Story in Pictures," concerning sugar growing in Santo Domingo appears in the Miscellaneous Series. In addition this series contains photographs of prominent statesmen and others, such as Bernard Baruch, the British Royal family, William Jennings Bryan, Grover Cleveland, Josephus Daniels, Averell Harriman, Harold Ickes, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. An oil portrait of Roper is in the custody of the Special Collections Library. The Clippings Series includes scattered information on farming in South Carolina, especially cotton, African Americans, racial relations, tariffs, the presidential campaign of 1924 and William Gibbs McAdoo, and Roosevelt's cabinet.

Subject Headings

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American University (Washington, D.C.)--History. Coker College--History. Duke University--History. United States. Department of Commerce--Officials and employees. Agriculture--United States. Commerce--United States. Depressions--1929--United States. New Deal, 1933-1939. Politicians--United States--Correspondence. Presidents--United States--Election--1932. Prohibition--United States. Railroads--United States. United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945. United States--Politics and government--1919-1933. United States--Politics and government--1933-1945. Universities and colleges--United States. Contents of Collection Alphabetical, 1927-1943, undated (bulk 1933-1938)

Chiefly typed, professional correspondence to and from Roper, including telegrams, memoranda and carbon copies of Roper's outgoing mail. The bulk was generated during Roper's tenure as Secretary of Commerce. A variety of other material scattered throughout the files includes printed material in the form of pamphlets, booklets, and serials; press releases from the Department of Commerce; reports; addresses by Roper and others; charts and graphs; organizational records from various groups including minutes, budgets, and agendas; clippings; and photographs. A series of folders contains first day covers given to Roper by Postmaster James A. Farley. There is a small amount of personal correspondence and financial information. Two volumes of correspondence are at the end of the series. They are a letterbook of congratulations upon Roper's appointment as Secretary of Commerce with copies of Roper's replies, and "Special Letters of Congratulation to Daniel C. Roper, March 4, 1933," with Roper's replies. Cross-reference sheets prepared by Roper's staff are found frequently throughout the series, many of which appear to refer to a separate set of files not in this collection.

Arranged alphabetically by names of individuals, organizations, or topics, with additional general alphabetical files for each letter of the alphabet. Arranged chronologically within folders.

1 A, 1929-1933, undated Abbot, Willis J., 1927-1932, undated Agriculture, 1927-1930 Allen, Frederick Hobbes, 1932 Allen, George G., 1932 Allied Forces for Prohibition, 1932 Allotment Bill, Domestic, 1933 American Peace Society, 1930-1933, undated American University: 1928-1943, undated (2 folders) Reorganization Committee, 1932, undated American Voting Machine Company, 1932, undated Amory, Copley, 1932-1933, undated Anderson, Lloyd C., 1920 Anti-Saloon League of America, 1929-1933 Applications for Government Positions, 1932-1933 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co., 1943 Auchincloss, Gordon, 1933 Austin, William L., 1932-1933 Aviation, 1937-1938 Aviation, Inter-Departmental Committee on Civil International Aviation, 1937-1938, undated Ayres, W. A., 1929-1931 Ba-Bf, 1918-1943 Baker, James M, 1928-1939 Baker, Newton D., 1928-1932 Baker, Ray Stannard, 1929 Barkley, Alben W., 1932-1941 Barristers Lodge No. 48, F.A.A.M., 1929-1933 Barrol, L. Wethered, 1932 Baruch, Bernard M., 1920, 1928 Baruch, Herman B., 1928-1933 Bassett, Richard, 1928 Battle, Edgar, 1929-1932 Beil, Fred C., 1929-1932 Benners, Joseph N., 1928-1930, undated Bennett, James R., Jr., 1928-1932 Bertron, S. R., 1930-1933 Bg-Bl, 1928-1943 Binder, Julius J., 1929-1932 Bingham, Robert W., 1932-1934 Black Bill, 1933 Black, Eugene, 1932, 1943 Blair, David H., 1928-1929 Blair, Emily Newell, 1929-1932 Blair, Gist, 1932 Bm-Br, 1919-1937 Board of Education (District of Columbia), 1931-1932 (2 folders) 2 Boileau, Ralph E., 1924-1930 Bolen, Hubert L., 1928-1932 Bond, Henry Herrick, 1929 Bowen, W. C., 1929-1930 Bowers, Claude G., 1928-1937 Bowes, Walter H., 1928 Boxing Bill, 1927-1930, undated Bradford, Russell L., 1930-1932 Bradley, Rolland, 1928-1932 Brandeis, Louis D., 1932 Bride, Daniel, 1928-1933 Bright, Frank S., 1928-1929 Brindley, A. R., 1928-1933 Brookmire Economic Service, Inc., 1928-1930 Brooks, Henry W., Jr., 1932 Brown, Arlo Ayres, 1943 Brown, C. M., 1929-1932 Brown, E. T., 1927-1932 Brownlow, Louis, 1930-1932 Bryan, William Jennings, Memorial Association, 1930-1933 Bs-Bz, 1928-1936, undated Buchler, William Paul, 1929 Buckingham, R. T., 1943 Bulla, Charles D., 1928-1930 Burkhead, L. L., 1928-1932 Burleson, A. S., 1922-1934 Busick, Adrien F., 1927-1930 Business Advisory Council, 1933-1938 (2 folders) Byrnes, James F., 1930-1932 Ca-Cf, 1928-1938 (2 folders) Cabinet anniversary dinners, 1934-1938 Cabinet meetings, 1933-1938 Caffrey, James Garret, 1933-1936 Caldwell, Rush, 1928-1936 Calhoun, C. C., 1929-1938 Calhoun, Harry D., 1935 California Pacific International Exposition, 1935 California Reimbursement Bill, 1932 Callahan, P. H., 1928-1938 (2 folders) Callan, Joseph H., 1917-1933 Campbell, Carlyle, 1928-1943 Canada, 1925-1939 Canaday, Ward M., 1934-1936 Candler, Warren A., 1929-1936 Cannon, Bishop James, 1927-1930 Carden, George A, 1928-1938 (2 folders) 3 Carroll, John, 1928-1930 Carroll, Robert P., 1931-1938 Carter, Amon, 1933-1938 Carter, Boake, 1935-1937 Cary, Harry Francis, 1933-1938 Census: 1933-1938 (2 folders) Unemployment Census, 1937, 1933-1938 Central Statistical Board, 1937 Century of Progress, 1933-1934 Cg-Cl, 1928-1938 (3 folders) Chadbourne, Thomas L., 1924-1938 Chadbourne, W. A., 1932-1938 Chamber of Commerce of the United States, 1930-1934 Champion, Ira T., 1928-1938 Chatterton, Edward W., 1928-1934 Chevy Chase Club, 1928-1934 Chilton, W. E., 1935-1937 China, 1935-1938 Christie, A. C., 1930-1933 Christmas correspondence, 1938 Church and Welfare Recovery, 1934 Citizens Committee of One Thousand, 1929-1932 Civil Aeronautics Authority, 1938 Civil Service Commission, 1928-1936 Clagett, Brice, 1932-1938 Clark, Clifton, 1929-1933 Clark, Elmer T., 1933-1937 Clark, M. M., 1933-1935 Clarke, Bennett Champ, 1933-1937 Clayton, William L., 1936-1938 Clergymen, 1938 Cloud, Wendell H., 1929-1937 Club memberships, miscellaneous, 1933-1943 4 Cm-Cr, 1928-1938 (4 folders) Coal industry, legislation, 1933-1936 Cobb, Zach Lamar, 1929-1935 Cockayne, Selena, 1936-1937 Cohen, John S., 1933-1935 Coker family, 1920-1944 Coker, D. R., Mr. and Mrs., 1928-1938 (3 folders) Coker, Samuel, 1928-1934 Coker College, 1929-1936 Collier, Barron G., 1935-1937 Collier's magazine, 1936-1937 Collins, Linton M., 1934-1943 Colquitt, O. B., 1933-1937 Comer, Donald, 1934 Commerce, Department of, 1926-1942, undated (2 folders) Commercial Policy Committee, 1933-1934 Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, statements by Roper, 1933 Communications Committee, 1933-1934 (2 folders) Communications Committee and Majority Report, 1933-1934 5 Communications Committee: The President, 1933-1934 Report, 1934, Jan. 23 Communications Group, 1932-1934, undated (2 folders) Community Chest of Washington, 1928-1938 Cone, J. Carroll, 1933-1937 Congressional Record, 1935-1936 Contributions, miscellaneous, 1933-1938 Cook, O. W. E., 1934 Cooksey, George R., 1931-1933 Coolidge, Marcus A., 1929-1933 Cooper, Frank, 1929-1933 Cooper, Robert A., 1928-1935 Copeland, Royal S., 1935-1938 Costello, John F., 1932-1938 Costigan, E. P., 1928-1937 Cotton industry, 1933-1938 Cotton, Hamilton H., 1933-1936 Covington, Ethel M., 1933-1934 Cowles, John H., 1928-1934 Cramer, W. Stuart, 1933 Creel, George, 1933-1938 Crosland, Dana, 1928 Crowell, John F., 1928-1930 Cs-Cz, 1928-1943 Cuddihy, Robert J., 1928-1934 Culbertson, William S., 1929-1937 Cummings, Homer, 1930-1938 (2 folders) Cummings, Walter J., 1934-1937 Cupp, Walter R., 1935-1936 Curley, James M., 1933-1935 Currie, Daniel J., 1928-1943 Da-Df, 1928-1943 (2 folders) Dalrymple, A. V., 1933-1935 D'Amico, John B., 1930-1935 Daniel, Thomas H., 1928-1935 Daniels, Jonathan, 1932-1938 6 Daniels, Josephus, 1927-1943 Darby, W. L., 1929-1937 Daughters of the American Revolution, 1934-1936 Davies, Joseph E., 1933-1938 Davis, Ewin L, 1933-1937 Davis, Herbert L., 1932-1938 Davis, John W., 1928-1933 Davis, P. M., 1929-1933 Davison, Philip N., 1933 Decell, J. L., 1934-1938 Deflation of government spending, 1932-1933 Degrees and other honors, 1933-1936 Delano, Frederic A., 1928-1937 Democratic convention, 1928 Democratic League of D.C., 1936-1938 Democratic National Committee, 1933-1938 Democratic organizations, clubs, etc., 1933-1938 Denning, William I, 1932-1935 Denny, Collins, 1929-1934 Department of the Interior, 1926-1937 DePhillips, Madeline, 1938 Dern, George H., 1933-1936 De Titta, Arthur, 1933-1937 De Witt, William C., 1928-1938 Dg-Dl, 1928-1943 Dial, N.B., 1928-1937 Diaper, Ernest G., 1934-1938 Dick, Noble, 1934 Dickinson, John, 1928-1936 Dill, C. C., 1928-1936 Discharge books, Department of Commerce, 1936-1937 Disney, Wesley E., 1934-1936 Dix, Howard W, 1930-1937 Dixcy, T. B., 1929-1933 Dm-Dr, 1928-1943 Dodd, William E., 1922-1938 (2 folders) Donovan, Edward, 1935-1938 Doran, J. M., 1929-1933 Doughton, Robert L., 1933-1938 Douglas, Charles A., 1928-1936 Doyle, Michael Francis, 1933-1938 Ds-Dz, 1928-1943 Dudley, Claude W., 1933-1938 Duke University, 1928-1933, Mar. (2 folders) 7 Duke University, 1933-1943, undated (3 folders) Durbin, W. W., 1933-1937 Ea-Ef, 1924-1943 Early, Stephen, 1936-1942 Eastman, Joseph B., 1934-1936 Eaton, Cyrus S., 1934-1938 Ecumenical Conference, 1932-1936 Education, 1928-1938 Eg-El, 1924-1943 Eisner, Mark, 1933-1938 Elbert, Robert H,. 1934-1937 Election, 1936 Elliott, W. Y., 1937-1938 Em-Er, 1924-1943 Emig, Clayton E. 1929-1934 Emory University, 1935 Engagements, 1937-1938, undated Entertainment, Miscellaneous, 1933-1938 Es-Ez, 1924-1943 European trip, 1936-1938 (2 folders) Evans, John Gary, 1930-1938 Evans, Kathleen, 1933-1938 Excerpts (miscellaneous), 1933-1937, undated Executive Council, 1933 Executive Orders, 1933-1937 Export-Import Bank of Washington, 1934-1937 Fa-Ff, 1928-1938 Farley, James A., 1932-1935 (2 folders) 8 Farley, James A., 1933-1943 (4 folders) Federal Aviation Commission, 1934 Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, 1932-1938 Federal Emergency Relief Administration, 1933 Federal government reorganization, 1933 Federal Judgeship, Marion, S.C., 1934 Federal Home Loan Bank Board Home Owner's Loan Corporation, 1933-1935 Federal Housing Administration, 1934-1936 Feick, Fred L., 1932-1936 Fertich, Roscoe, 1934-1938 Feuchtwanger, Joseph, 1928-1933 Few, William P., 1928-1938 Fg-Fl, 1928-1938 Field, Robert M., 1932-1937 Filene, Edward A., 1933-1937 Filene, Lincoln, 1933-1938 Fisheries, Bureau of, 1934-1938 FitzHenry, Louis, 1933 Flax production, 1933-1936 Florida State Bar Association, 1934-1935 Florida vacations, 1934-1942 Flowers, R. L., 1928-1938 Fm-Fr, 1928-1943 (2 folders) Ford Motor Company, 1929 Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Bureau of, 1935-1938 (2 folders) Foreign Service: Retirement Bill, 1938 Foreign Trade: 1933-1938 Reports (George N. Peek) Foreign Trade Week, celebration of, 1936-1937 Foreign Trade Zones, 1934-1937 Fox, Marvin L., 1928-1934 Francis, Clarence, 1937-1938 Fraternities, undated Frazier, Frank, 1928-1937 Frazier, Virgil H., 1934-1938 Freed, Allie S., 1935-1938 Freeman, James E., 1933-1937 Frensdorf, Edward, 1933-1935 Friant, Julian N., 1936-1938 Friday, David, 1928 Fs-Fz, 1928-1938 Fullilove, S.C., 1933 9 Ga-Gf, 1928-1943 (2 folders) Gannon, Elizabeth, 1936-1937 Gans, Issac, 1933-1937 Gardiner, W. Gwynn, 1933-1938 Garner, John N., 1930-1938 Gasque, Allard H., 1928-1938 Garver, Harry H., 1935-1937 Gell, Harry J., 1934-1943 Genealogy, 1929-1935 Gentry, J. J., 1929-1937 Gg-Gl, 1886-1943 Gideons, bibles, 1936 Gifts received by Roper, 1933-1938 Gm-Gr, 1928-1943 (3 folders) Gonzales, W. E., 1932-1937 Gore, Robert H., 1933-1938 Government reorganization, 1933 Grain Futures Act, 1934-1935 Grayson, Cary T., 1927-1938 Great Lakes Exposition, 1936-1937 Greensboro College, 1935-1937 Greenwood, Moses, 1932-1937 Gridiron Club, 1933-1938 Gs-Gz, 1928-1943 Guffey, Joseph F., 1936-1938 Gundlach, E. T., 1928-1938 Ha-Hf, 1928-1943 (4 folders) Hackett, E. F., 1936-1938 Hagner, Randall H. and Co., 1931 Halsey, Edwin A., 1932-1938 Haly, Percy, 1928-1937 Hamer, Tom M., 1932-1938 (2 folders) Hamer, William M., 1933-1935 10 Hamilton, Norman R., 1934-1938 Hamlin, Frank, T., 1928-1933 Haney, Bert E., 1933 Hansbrough, H. C., 1932 Hardison, Robert B., 1934-1937 Harmon, Nolan B., 1929-1935 Harriman, W. Averell, 1933-1943 Harris, Edwin S., 1932-1936 Harris, Frederick Brown, 1929-1937 Harrison, William Henry, 1937-1938 Harvey, Richard, 1928-1933 Hathaway, Minnie, 1928-1933 Hawkins, Walter, 1934-1938 Hay, Charles M., 1928-1943 Hecht, R. S., 1936-1937 Heflin, J. Thomas, 1934-1938 Heimann, Henry H., 1933-1943 Helium reserves, 1937 Hentz, Henry and Company, 1929-1938 Hereley, D. G. "Ted," 1933-1938 Hereley, Hannah M., 1932-1937 Herman, Raphael, 1928-1938 Hg-Hl, 1928-1943 High, Stanley, 1934-1937 Hildreth, Melvin D., 1927-1943 Hill, John Wesley, 1933-1936 Hindenburg Accident, 1936-1937 Hm-Hr, 1928-1943 (2 folders) Hobbs, Franklin W., 1933-1943 Hodges, Edward P., 1932-1933 Holt, Hamilton, 1928-1943 Hopkins, Harry, 1933-1938 Hotels, 1928-1938 House, E. M., 1919-1938 Housing, 1933-1938 Houston, Herbert S., 1933-1938 Howard, Clinton N., 1929-1937 Howe, Louis McHenry, 1931-1936 Howell, Clark, 1933-1937 Hoyt, James A., 1930-1933 11 Hs-Hz, 1928-1943 Hull, Cordell, 1927-1943 Hurley, Edward N., 1933 Hurrey, Clarence B., 1932-1939 Hutchinson, Forney, 1932-1937 Hutchinson, J. E., 1933-1936 I, 1928-1943 Ickes, Harold L., 1932-1938 Inauguration, 1937 Insurance, 1932-1938 Internal Revenue Service, 1920(2 vols. and 1 folder) Interstate Commerce Commission, 1933 Irey, Elmer L., 1932-1938 Ja-Jl, 1928-1938 Jackson, Burris, 1936-1938 Jackson, Charles E., 1932-1937 Jackson Day Dinner, 1936-1938 Jacobs, Harry L., 1933-1937 Jamieson, W. D., 1928-1938 Japanese Economic Mission, 1937, May 11-June 16 Jefferson Islands Club, 1934-1937 Jefferson Memorial, 1936-1938 Jenckes, Virginia E., 1933-1936 Jennifer, William, 1933-1937 Jewelers of the United States, volume, 1917(?) Jm-Jz, 1928-1938 Johnson, Hugh S., 1933-1935 Johnson, J. Monroe, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, 1935-1938 12 Jones, Jessie H., 1928-1938 Julian, W. A., 1928-1938 Justice Department, 1933-1938 Ka-Kf, 1928-1943 Kaltenborn, H. V., 1935-1936 Kempler, William T., 1933-1938 Kendall, Henry P., 1933-1938 Kennedy, Joseph P., 1936-1938 Kern, Paul B., 1938 Kernahan Campaign, evangelism, 1930 Kg-Kl, 1933-1938 King, W. L. MacKenzie, 1938-1943 Kip, Frederic E., 1935-1936 Kiwanis Club, 1934-1936 Klien, Ernest L., 1933-1943 Klinck, J. C., 1935-1937 Km-Kz, 1928-1943 Knapp, Frank F., 1929-1936 Knight, Peter O., 1935-1936 Knoxville, Tenn., tariff controversy, 1931 Kraft, Herman F., 1933-1938 Kroner, Hayes, 1928-1936 Kuhn, Oliver Owen, 1933-1937 La-Lf, 1928-1943 (3 folders) Labor Department, 1933-1938 Lamar, Lucy, 1933-1937 Lambeth, William A., 1928-1943 Lamport, Sam C., 1933-1937 Landon, Alf M., 1936campaign Lane, Alex M., 1933-1938 Lane, Julius J., 1928-1938 Latimer, J. Austin, 1936-1938 Lauck, W. Jett, 1932 Law, William A., 1933-1936 Laws, Bolitha J., 1928-1938 13 Lawson, Martin E., 1929-1936 Lawton, J. J., 1932-1938 League of Nations Association, 1928-1938 Leete, Frederick D., 1934-1938 Legge, Alexander, 1929-1936 Legislation, U.S. Congress, 1933-1938 L'Enfant, Pierre Charles, Memorial, 1928-1930 Letts, John C., 1929-1936 Lewine, Jerome, 1929 Lewis, J. Hamilton, 1932-1936 Lg-Ll, 1928-1943 Lightfoot, M. D., 1928-1929 Lightle, James F., 1932 Liquor Control Committee, 1933 (3 folders) Lm-Lr, 1928-1943 Long, Breckinridge, 1933-1937 Long, Richard Henry, 1928-1943 Loose, Ella, 1935-1943 Lord, J. A., 1928-1938 Love, Thomas B., 1928-1943 (2 folders) Lowson, Frank, 1932 Ls-Lz, 1928-1943 Ludlow, Louis, 1928-1938 Ma-Mf, 1928-1943 (4 folders) 14 Ma-Mf, 1928-1943 (2 folders) MacFadden, Bernarr, 1934-1937 MacRae, Hugh, 1928-1936 Mahany, Rowland B., 1928-1932 Mahoney, William V., 1936 Malone, Paul B., 1933-1937 Maloney, Thomas, 1933-1938 Marine Inspection and Navigation, Bureau of, 1937-1938 Maritime Commission, United States, 1936-1938 Marshall, Rowland S., 1933-1936 Marshall, Stuart B., 1932-1933 Martin, A. E., 1932-1936 Martin, George, 1933-1935 Martin, Harry, 1902-1937 Martin, Rex, 1934-1937 Masons, 1929-1938 Mattern, James J., 1937 Matthews, Ben C., 1933-1937 Mattox, E. Tilden, 1935-1937 Maybank, Burnet, 1936-1943 McAdoo, William Gibbs, 1916-1939 (2 folders) McArdle, Ruskin, 1932-1938 McArdle, Willett, 1934-1935 McCall, Chester H., 1933-1938 McColl, Delle Roper, 1929-1937 McColl, Eulah, 1928-1938 McColl, J. B., 1932-1935 McConihe, Malcolm S., 1933-1937 McCormick Vance C., 1928-1940 McCormick, Willoughby M., 1931-1932 McCulloch, J. E., 1928-1938 McDonald, Capt. J. J., 1917-1932 McGrath, John J., 1933-1938 McGurn, Arthur J., 1936 McIntyre, Marvin H., 1933-1943 McKee, William A., 1933-1937 McKellar, Kenneth, 1934-1938 McKenzie, William N., Sr., 1928-1938 McKenzie, William N., Jr., 1932-1938 McLaurin, Sidney L., 1932-1940 McLean, Angus W., 1928-1937 McLendon and Hedrick, lawyers, 1928 McLeod, F. H., 1933-1936 McMillan, E. J., 1933-1938 McMillan, Thomas S. 1937-1938 McMorran, C. W., 1935-1938 McNeal, George H., 1929-1936 McNeil, Archibald, 1933-1936 McRae, A. C., Jr., 1934-1938 McSwain, J. J., 1932-1936 Mead, George H., 1933-1938 Meekins, Lynn W., 1936-1938 Mellon, Andrew W., 1928 15 Memberships, miscellaneous, 1933-1938 Memoranda, miscellaneous, 1932-1938 Merchant Marine, 1933-1938 Meredith, E. T., 1920-1929 Merger of D.C. utilities, 1932 Messages, 1933-1938 (2 folders) Methodist Church, 1929-1943, undated (2 folders) Methodist Episcopal Church, South: Committee on Appeals, 1931-1932 General conference, 1930 Judicial Council, 1928-1929 Mg-Ml, 1928-1943 Michelson, Charles, 1932-1938 Middleton, Hugh Calhoun, 1933-1935 Miles, Vincent, 1933-1938 Millar, A. C., 1933-1938 Miller, Douglas, 1936-1937 Miller, Hugh, 1933 Miller, Izetta Jewell, 1933-1937 Miller, Justin, 1932-1938 Miller, Milton A. 1932-1935 Milton, George Fort, 1928-1943 (2 folders) Mitchell, Ewing Y., 1928-1934 Mm-Mr, 1928-1943 (2 folders) Moehlenpah, H. A., 1929-1933 Moley, Raymond, 1933-1935 Monopolies, 1937-1938 Montgomery, Mabel, 1933-1937 Moody, Alvin, 1928-1932 Mooney, James D., 1933-1937 Moore, Arthur J., 1936-1938 Morgan, W. Forbes, 1932-1937 Morgenthau, Henry, 1933-1937 Morris, Ira Nelson, 1934-1938 Morrison, Charles C., 1937 Morrison, R. W., 1933-1938 Morro Castle, steamboat sinking, 1934 Morse, V. D., 1928-1935 16 Motion pictures, 1933-1938 Mott, John R., 1932 Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1928-1938 (2 folders) Moyer, J. S., 1937-1938 Ms-Mz, 1928-1943 Murphy, Frederick E., 1934-1937 Murphy, Louis J., 1932-1937 Murrell, John M., Mr. and Mrs., 1933-1938 Na-Nf, 1928-1943 (2 folders) Narcotics, 1936-1937 National Advisory Council, 1931-1935 National Benefit Life Insurance Company, 1931-1938 (2 folders) National Business Show, 1936-1937 National Conference of Jews and Christians, 1931-1933 National Emergency Council, 1933-1936 National Institute of Public Affairs, 1934-1938 National organizations, miscellaneous, 1930-1938 National Preaching Mission, 1936 National Recovery Administration, 1933-1937 (3 folders) National Safety Council, 1934-1935 National University, 1935-1938 National Woman's Democratic Law Enforcement League, 1929 Neblett, William H., 1934-1936 Negroes, 1933-1938 Nesbit, Scott, 1932-1935 Neutrality, United States, 1936-1937 New England Society of South Carolina, 1934 17 Newspapers, magazines, etc., 1933-1938 (2 folders) Newton, Byron R., 1928-1938 New York World's Fair, 1937-1939 Ng-Nz, 1928-1943 Niles, Frank B., 1927-1932 Nippert, Alfred K., 1932-1943 Noyes, Theodore W., 1937-1938 Nunn, C. S., 1928-1935 Nutt, L. G., 1928-1935 Oa-Ol, 1926-1941 Obici, A., 1934-1938 O'Connell, William L., 1935-1936 O'Connor, J. F. T., 1933-1938 Oleson, Anna Dickie, 1932-1937 Om-Oz, 1926-1941 Omicron Delta Kappa (Duke University), 1929-1936 Owen, Robert L., 1932-1938 Owen, Ruth Bryan, 1929-1935 Oxford Group, 1934-1936 Pa-Pf, 1928-1943 (2 folders) Palaver Club, 1931-1937 Palmer, A. Mitchell, 1932-1936 Parker, Walter, 1935-1938 Patent Centennial, 1936, Nov. 23 Patent Office and patents, miscellaneous, 1935-1938 Patterson, Jean Rushmore, 1932 Patterson, Richard C., Jr., 1935-1938 Payer, Harry F., 1933-1939 Peabody, George Foster, 1932-1937 Peacock, J. Craig, 1932-1937 Pearlstine, S.S., 1934-1938 Penn Club, 1935 Perkins, Frances, 1933-1937 Perkins, W. R., 1932-1933 Personnel (miscellaneous), 1933-1938 Peters, Andrew J., 1917-1938 18 Peters, James W. S., 1933-1937 Pg-Pl, 1928-1943 Philadelphia Convention, 1936 Phillips, G. Z., 1928-1936 Pickett, Deets, 1927-1937 Pinci, A. R., 1932-1940 Pleasantaire Corporation, 1937 Pm-Pr, 1928-1943 (2 folders) Poe, Clarence, 1933-1938 Poland Spring House, Maine, 1932-1937 Poling, Daniel A., 1930-1937 Politics: 1932 Democratic National Campaign, 1932 (10 folders) Politics: 1936 Democratic National Campaign, 1936 1938 Democratic National Campaign, 1938 Democratic Party, 1928-1938 (6 folders) Pomerene, Atlee, 1928-1937 Portraits, 1934-1936 19 Postmaster General: Free Delivery Service, 1860-1911 Precedents and Practice, 1915 20 Pratt, G. W., 1928-1938 President's birthday ball, 1935-1938 President's Cup Regatta, 1934-1938 Press, 1936-1938 Press Club, 1932-1938 Press Conferences, 1934-1938 Press Releases (Department of Commerce), 1933-1938 (10 folders) Press, miscellaneous, undated Price, Jesse D., 1935 Price, John W., 1927-1938 Price, Katherine Z., 1935-1937 Price, Theodore H. 1928-1935 Prohibition, 1927-1936 (2 folders) Prohibition, 1932 Campaign, 1932 Prohibition, (law enforcement), 1928-1929 Ps-Pz, 1928-1938 Public Works Administration, 1933-1938 Publicity Bureau, Department of Commerce (H. R. Daniel), 1938 Purdy, E. A., 1932-1937 Q, 1932-1938 Questionnaires, miscellaneous (Roper's responses), 1933-1938 21 Quinn, Stanley J., 1932-1935 Ra-Rf, 1928-1943 (2 folders) Radio (addresses and miscellaneous), 1928-1938 Railroads, 1933-1938 Rainey, Henry T., 1928-1935 Randolph, Hollis N., 1928-1938 Rankin, William H., 1933-1938 Raper, C. L., 1932-1943 Rayburn, Sam, 1933-1938 Recommendations (miscellaneous), 1937-1938 Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1932-1938 Reisner, Christian F., 1930-1939 Religion and religious groups, 1932-1938 Religion and Welfare Recovery, 1934-1937 Reorganization of U.S. Government Departments, 1933-1937 Reports (cross-references), 1935-1938 Revere, C. T., 1932-1939 Rg-Rl, 1928-1943 Richberg, Donald, 1935-1939 Rippy, J. Fred, 1932-1937 Rm-Rr, 1928-1943 (2 folders) Robert, Lawrence Wood, Jr., 1933-1939 Roberts, Coleman W., 1934-1937 Roberts, George M., 1933-1938 Robins, William L., 1928-1939 Robinson, David, 1937 Robinson, Elsie, 1932-1934 Robinson, Joseph T., 1933-1937 Rockefeller, John D., 1934-1937 Rogers, Elmer E., 1932-1939 Rogers, James Harvey, 1932-1939 Rogers, Sallie C., 1933 Rogers Will, 1933-1938 Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, 1928-1937 Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1933-1939 Roosevelt, Franklin D.: 1919-1943, undated Miscellaneous memoranda, 1933-1938 (3 folders) Secretary Louis McH. Howe, 1933-1934 22 Roosevelt, James, 1933-1938 Root, Nelly Hall, 1928-1937 Roper, A. Kent, 1932-1933 Roper, Alvin W., 1928 Roper, Daniel C.: Biographical, 1913-1938, undated Personal, 1928-1939 Roper, Daniel C. Jr., 1920-1938 (2 folders) Roper, Harry McK., 1928-1938 Roper, Jack C., 1928-1938 Roper, James Hunter, 1930-1938 Roper, John Wesley, 1929-1937 Roper, Lou McKenzie: A-Z (3 folders) Miscellaneous Roper, Richard Fred, 1928-1937 (3 folders) Roper, T. W., 1928-1932 Roper family, 1886-1943, undated Roper genealogy, family history, etc., 1933-1938 Roper residence, Washington, D.C., 1925-1938, undated Roper, miscellaneous, 1933-1938 Rosser, C. M., 1930-1937 Rothchild, Meyer D., 1932-1936 Rowe, L. S., 1928-1943 23 Rs-Rz, 1928-1943 Rukeyser, Merryle S., 1933-1938 Russell, Charles Edward, 1935-1937 Russell, William J., 1928-1939 Russia, miscellaneous, 1933-1937 Rustin, John W., 1937-1939 Sa-Sf, 1930-1939 (4 folders) Sabella, Ricardo H., 1936-1937 St. Clair, Labert, 1933-1939 Saltzman, Charles McK., 1933-1938, undated Salvation Army, 1933-1938 Sanders, Jared Y., 1932-1933 Sanford, Fred L., 1932-1943 Scarborough, J. H., 1933-1938 Seagrave, Arthur E., 1935-1938 Seeligson, Arthur A., 1932-1929 Seibels, Edwin G., 1935-1939 Sells, Cato, 1930-1939 Senatorial campaigns, contributions, 1932 Sg-Sl, 1930-1943, undated (3 folders) Shaver, C. L., 1930-1936 Shaw, Albert, 1936-1939 Shaw, Alex C., 1930-1933 Shepherd, Jesse L., 1937-1939 Sheppard, Morris, 1933-1939 Sherwood, Carlton M., 1933-1943 Shinn, Earl Whittier, 1938-1939 Shipping, 1934-1937 Shoemaker, Samuel M., 1937-1938 Sholtz, David, 1934-1939 Showalter, William J., 1930-1933 Shuff, John L., 1930-1939 Shure, Ralph G., 1931-1936, undated Shutts, Frank B., 1935-1939 Sibley, Harper, 1936-1939 Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity, 1932-1938 (3 folders) Silverman, Samuel W., 1932-1938, undated Simmons, Furnifold M., 1929-1938 Sinnot, John F., 1934-1937 Slemp, C. Bascom, 1930-1937 Sloane, George A., 1935-1938 24 Sm-Sr, 1886-1939, undated (3 folders) Small, John H., 1930-1937 Small Business Men's Conference, 1938 Smith, Arthur C., 1933-1937 Smith, Elizabeth, 1932-1935 Smith, Ellison D., 1932-1938 Smith, Frank, 1933-1938 Smith, Fred B., 1933-1937 Smith, Rembert G., 1935-1937 Smith, Tom K., 1938-1943 Smith, W. Angie, 1934-1937 Smith, Willis, 1932-1937 Snell, Arthur V., 1932-1933 Société Amonyme des Minerais, 1939 Sommers, H. A., 1934-1936 Soong, T. V., 1933-1940 South Carolina, miscellaneous, 1932-1939, undated Southeastern Development Board, 1934 Southern Society of Washington, 1930-1937 Sowell, Ashley B., 1934-1943 Spivey, Ludd M., 1930-1937 Splawn, Walter M. W., 1930-1937 SS President Hoover, 1938 Ss-Sz, 1930-1943, undated (3 folders) Stackhouse, M. Steed, 1932-1937, undated Stackhouse, T. B., 1926-1939, undated Stackhouse, Texie, 1933, undated Stackhouse, Wade, 1932-1938 Stackhouse, Walter F., 1930-1939 Stackhouse, Will, 1930-1943 Standards, Bureau of, 1934 State Department, 1933-1938, undated Stettinius, Edward R., Jr., 1933-1943 Steuart, William M., 1930-1933 Stokes, Anson Phelps, 1935-1938 Stone, Alfred H., 1932-1934 Stover, James D., 1932-1935 Stuart, R. Douglas, 1937-1939 Sulzer, William, 1933-1939 Summaries of newspaper editorials about Roper, 1933-1936 Sweet, E. M., 1933-1943 Sweet, William E., 1930-1934 25 Ta-Tf, 1887-1939 Tariff, 1932 campaign, 1932 Taussig, F. W., 1918-1934 Taxes, miscellaneous, 1919-1939, undated Taylor, James H., 1928-1930 Telegrams, 1931-1932 Tg-Tz, 1919-1939 Travel expenses, 1932-1933 Traxler, David B., 1928-1939 Trimble, South, Jr., 1931-1932 U, 1928-1932 U.S. Constitution, celebration, 1935-1937 U.S. Post Office, 1932-1938 Unemployment relief, 1934-1938 University Club, 1930-1933 V, 1928-1939 Vacations, 1930-1932 Wa-Wf, 1928-1939 Walker, Frank C., 1932-1939 Wallace, Hugh, 1919-1932 Walter, William E., 1933-1936 Washington Criminal Justice Association, 1939 Washington Federation of Churches (W. L. Darby), 1932 Watson, E. O., 1928-1932 Webb, George T., 1932 Wesley, Lofton S., 1928 Wetherill, Samuel P., 1939 Wg-Wl, 1928-1940 White House, miscellaneous memoranda, 1933-1936 Wiggins, A. Lee M., 1930-1940 William, Maurice, 1931-1939 Williams, Dixon C., 1927-1930 Williams, J. Lester, 1930-1939 Williams, Wayne C., 1928-1939 Wilson, Frank R., 1939 Wilson, Luke I., 1928-1932 Wilson, William B. 1928-1931 Wilson, Woodrow, 1916-1924 Winton, David J., 1932 Wm-Wz, 1930-1939 Woodson, Urey, 1930-1939 Woolley, Robert M., 1932-1939 Wyvell, Manton M., 1928-1932 Y, 1928-1939 Yellowley, Edward C., 1932-1939 Younger, Donald, 1928-1933 Z, 1932-1939 Zapf, Lacey C., 1932-1939 Miscellaneous, 1936-1943 26 Volumes: (Congratulations upon Roper's appointment as Secretary of Commerce) Letterbook, 1933 Special letters of congratulation to Daniel C. Roper, March 4, 1933 Writings and Speeches Series, 1913-1943, undated (bulk 1933-1938)

Chiefly typed transcripts, in bound and loose form, of Roper's public addresses and statements. The majority, many of which were broadcast over national radio, were delivered while Roper was Commissioner of Internal Revenue or Secretary of Commerce. Also includes two typed, unbound book manuscripts containing proofreaders' marks; correspondence about speaking engagements and book publication; and a small amount of press releases, printed speeches, speeches by others, and background material for speeches and books. Volumes contain some duplicates of loose material in the series.

Arranged alphabetically.

27 Addresses, 1913-1940, undated (16 folders) Addresses: List of Speeches Given by Roper, 1933-1938 28 Addresses, 1933-1936(4 vols.) 29 Addresses, 1937-1938(2 vols.) Correspondence, 1933-1938 Corespondence and statements, 1938 Fifty Years of Public Life: Correspondence, 1919-1943 Manuscript, 1941 (4 folders) Notes, 1921-1941 30 Notes, undated Miscellaneous, 1941, undated A Political History of the United States: Manuscript, undated (2 folders) Miscellaneous, 1934, undated Quotations and References, 1936-1937, undated Miscellaneous, 1938, undated Financial Papers Series, 1884-1943, undated, bulk 1921-1940

Contains records of the personal finances of Roper, his wife, and children, including investments in a number of businesses and real estate holdings, primarily in the form of correspondence with bankers, stock brokers and tenants. Also contains balance sheets; tax returns; records of stock transfer; lists of assets; profit and loss statements; financial statements from banks, brokerage houses, and various companies; receipts for dividends and taxes; and a few mortgage and lease agreements. Roper held major accounts with the City Bank Farmers' Trust Company (previously Farmers' Loan and Trust Company). Includes a number of financial record books documenting the above investments. A scrapbook generated by Roper's employment at the Marlin Rockwell Corporation contains correspondence, legal agreements, financial records, clippings, reports, and receipts.

Two subseries: Loose papers and Volumes, each arranged chronologically. Loose items removed from volumes and scrapbook have been placed in adjacent folders.

Loose Papers 1884-1943, n.d:Receipts, Miscellaneous 1921-1937:Tax Returns 1926-1928:Farms, N.C. and S.C. 1926-1938: Miami, Fla., property 1926-1929:Miscellaneous 1927-1928: Roper, Hagerman, Hurrey, and Parks 1927-1932:Roper children 1928:Investments 1928-1937: Bradenton, Fla., property 1929: City Bank Farmers' Trust Co., custodian account Income Tax Investments 1929-1930:Farms, N.C. and S.C. 1930: Roper, Hagerman, Hurrey, and Dudley 1930-1931: City Bank Farmers' Trust Co., custodian account 1930-1932:Investments, (2 folders) 31 1930-1939: City Bank Farmers' Trust Co., trust agreements 1931:Miscellaneous 1931-1932:Farms, N.C. and S.C. 1932:Brokerage statements (2 folders) Dividend Memoranda 1932-1933: City Bank Farmers' Trust Co. 1932-1934: Roper, Hurrey, and Dudley 1932-1935:Taxes, South Carolina property Miscellaneous 1933:Farms, N. C. and S.C. 1934: City Bank Farmers' Trust Co. custodian account 1934-1936:Farms, N.C. and S.C. 1935-1936: City Bank Farmers' Trust Co., custodian account 1936-1940:Income Tax 1936-1937:Miscellaneous 1937: City Bank Farmers' Trust Co., custodian account 1937-1938:Farms, N.C. and S.C. Investments Johnston, Lemon, and Co. 1937-1940:Miscellaneous 1938: New Orleans, La., property 1938-1940, undated: City Bank Farmers' Trust Co., custodian account Volumes Financial Record Books: 1921-1929, 1939(2 vols.) 32 Financial Record Books: 1928-1937(8 vols.) Scrapbook: 1918-1921: Clippings Series, 1860-1944, undated (bulk 1910-1940)

Chiefly loose clippings and clippings in scrapbooks, documenting Roper's political career and contemporary events. Scrapbooks also contain some correspondence, speeches, charts, printed materials and photographs.

Loose clippings are arranged chronologically, followed by two subject folders of clippings, and then the scrapbooks. The scrapbooks are arranged chronologically, with loose items contained in adjacent files.

1919-1944, undated (4 folders) 33 Air Mail Service, 1933-1934, undated Political, 1933-1934, undated Scrapbooks: 1860-1908 1903-1920 1913-1917, undated 1923-1926 34 1930-1931 1932 1933 1934-1935: 1936, Jan.-June: 35 1936, July-1938(no.1), (3 vols.) 1938(no. 2) 36 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Visit to Canada, 1939 (loose items) (2 folders) Scrapbook: My Clippings of Their Majesties' Visit to Canada, 1939 Miscellaneous Series, 1884-1958, undated (bulk 1920-1940)

Chiefly loose photographs of Roper, his family, and professional associates, including prominent politicians. Most of the latter were taken during the time of his cabinet post, and many have captions attached. Also includes invitations, legal papers, printed material, programs to banquets and other events, correspondence regarding photographs, and five volumes.

Arranged alphabetically by type of material. Photographs are arranged alphabetically by name of subject in a Pictures subseries at the end, which includes one photograph album.

37 Invitations, 1923-1943, undated (4 folders) Legal Papers, 1904, 1929 Printed Material, 1913-1943 Programs, 1934-1958 (2 folders) Volume: Commonplace Book, 1906-1912 Volume: The Guilds of America, 1933 Volumes, 1928, undated Pictures: Correspondence, 1936-1938, undated Baruch, Bernard M., 1920 British Royal Family, 1938-1939 Bryan, William Jennings, undated Byrnes, James F., 1941 Cleveland, Grover, 1908, undated Daniels, Josephus, 1937-1947 Dodd, William E., undated Duke University, undated Harriman, W. Averell, undated House, Edward M., 1924 Ickes, Harold, undated Luther, Hans, 1937 Pan-American Union, 1933-1937 Rainey, Henry T., 1934 Roosevelt, Eleanor, undated Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1934-1937, undated Roosevelt, Sarah, 1940 Roper, Daniel C., 1884-1938, undated (2 folders) Roper Family, 1907-1948, undated (2 folders) Taft, William H., 1924 United States Supreme Court, undated Washington, D.C., undated Wilson, Woodrow, undated People, A-Z and Miscellaneous, 1934-1939, undated Photograph Album, Sugar Story in Pictures, undated Oversize Materials Alphabetical Series 38 A-Z, 1892-1938, undated (2 folders) OC:III:3 A-Z, 1928-1938, undated Writings and Speeches Series 38 Correspondence, 1938 OC:III:3 Miscellaneous, undated Clippings Series 38 Scrapbook, 1860-1908 (Insert), undated Financial Papers Series 38 1926-1928:Farms, N.C. and S.C. 1926-1936: Miami, Fla. property 1927-1928: Roper, Hagerman, Hurrey and Parks 1927-1931:Roper children 1929:Investments 1932:Brokerage statements, Daniel C. Roper 1932:Brokerage statements, Lou McKenzie Roper 1935: Daniel C. Roper 39 1921-1937:Tax Returns 1926-1940:Miscellaneous 1931-1939: City Bank Farmers' Trust Company: custodian account Volume: Financial Record Book, 1922-1928 OC:III:3 1926-1936:Miami, Fla. property 1932-1938:Miscellaneous Miscellaneous Series: Pictures 39 1920-1946, undated (2 folders) 40 1917-1941, undated (3 folders)